COLUMN: When is manufacturer coupon not a manufacturer coupon?

1:48 PM,
Dec. 2, 2013

Written by

Jill Cataldo

I read your column regularly and perhaps you can help with this. I had a Catalina coupon, the kind that prints out at the checkout. It had been issued at Kroger and was for $1 off any two half gallons of a popular brand of soy milk. The coupon had "MANUFACTURER CPN" and the expiration date printed at the top. At the right side it said "REDEEM AT KROGER." There was a bar code on the coupon. It was not a Kroger store-only coupon (I know what they look like) and it did not say redeemable only at Kroger. But I wasn't shopping at Kroger - I was shopping at a different supermarket instead.